[Editor’s Note: We’re happy here to present a first blog post for us by Rian Mitch (submitted in response to our recent call for more bloggers). Rian was one of the voices on our Deleuze Not School discussion, whom we met when he took us to task via email for our slipshod treatment of Derrida on ep. 51. He consequently Continue Reading …
Assessing Irony
I saw this Opinionator article from Christy Wampole in the New York Times: “How to Live Without Irony.” It condemns the ironic lifestyle of Generation Y as terminally inauthentic, avoiding real commitments, making us (them) incapable of dealing with the world at hand and with each other. Central to Wampole’s critique is a standard “I don’t understand the younger generation” Continue Reading …
Kung Fu Pragmatism
Editor’s Note: You may recall our new contributor Dylan Casey from our quantum physics and pragmatism episodes. He’s a physics Ph.D. who teaches philosophy, literature, and other things at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, and I’m married to his sister. -ML This article from “The Stone” (as in philosopher’s stone) in the NYTimes argues that, properly understood, kung fu Continue Reading …
Danto Sitting Around With Some Chick
For the second entry in the New York Times’s series of online philosophy discussions, our friend Arthur Danto has posted an article about the MoMA’s ongoing display of veteran performance artist Marina Abramovic. It describes this odd piece of performance art, wherein Marina sits on a chair in the museum with an empty chair across from her, and patrons can Continue Reading …
The Times Takes on Philosophy
I’ve posted my take on the New York Times’ new philosophy blog on Open Culture.
What is a philosopher?
Simon Critchley and others are going to speculate on the question in a series of articles in the NY Times.